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🔎 Logging subjects

postfixmail

Add a header check with a WARN disposition for subjects.

Edit /etc/postfix/header_checks. Add:

/^([Ss]ubject):/ WARN

Then update the database, postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks. Subjects will be logged by the cleanup daemon in /var/log/maillog.

Jan  8 12:06:35 jib postfix/cleanup[9584]: D833F2C1C5E: warning: header Subject: Earn a $25 statement credit after you spend $500 or more from mta3.member.americanexpress.com[136.147.130.158]; from=<bounce-21_HTML-62395388-1626587-7201782-591@bounce.member.americanexpress.com> to=<user@foo.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<mta3.member.americanexpress.com>